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   Martijn Faassen (faassen@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 02:14:33 JST Martijn Faassen

   • Paul Cantrell
   • datarama

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   @inthehands

   I really love getting context myself. Though perhaps others might be impatient and want to get to the thing already. But the context is part of the thing.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 00:17:37 JST Paul Cantrell

     I fear that a large portion of computer science education comes off exactly like this for students:
     https://xkcd.com/3003/

     “Hi! I, your instruction, have lost sight of where this thing came from, what problem it solves, what tradeoffs it incurs, and how to use it wisely in practice. But you’re learning the vocabulary and you can repeat the pattern on an exam, and that’s the important part!”

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 00:18:35 JST Paul Cantrell

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     (Not just CS, of course; I’m just broadcasting from where I live here)

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 02:14:33 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • datarama

     @faassen @datarama
     One of the best courses I ever took was a semester on measure theory and the Lebesgue integral. We studied it entirely through the history, in chronological order. This meant that we’d often prove a theorem one week, then find out the next week that the proof was flawed and there’s a counterexample: making the same mistakes actual mathematicians made.

     It was •fantastic•. I still remember details decades later.

     The prof wrote it up:

     https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/0025570X.2020.1790967?needAccess=true